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A .nnirnn srnrns PATENT, onnron. 1

ROBERT W. ONYONS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANK PICKERING, 0F DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented J 1 143 11, 1912,

Application filed November 20, 1911. 9 Serial No. 661,199.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT W. ONYONS, a subject of King George the Fifth of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Hinges, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to hinges and pertains more particularly to hinges which automatically look a blind, lid, cover or the like in different positions as for example, locking the blind or the like in the open, closed, and intermediate positions when the blind itself is moored, to supplant independently operated hooks, fasteners, locks or the like that are now in use for the purpose of securing the said blind or the like after it I has been positioned.

In order to illustrate my invention I have shown in the accompanying drawings a single embodiment thereof, wherein;

Figure 1, is a plan of my invention showing the application thereof. Fig. 2, is a front elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a side elevation of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4, is a section on line 44 of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 5, is a similar section to Fig. 4, looking in the opposite direction to the arrow.

It is understood that the terms used herein are employed in the descriptive and the generic sense and not. for the purpose of limitation as any limitations of my invention will be pointed out in the appended claims. The word blind is used to signify the blind of a house or it may signify a door, cover, lid, or the like as my invention is easily applicable to any member adapted to close the entrance, avenue or means of approach to the interior of a house, compartment, box or the like and it may also support awnings. I

Inthe drawings 10 represents one leaf of a hinge adapted to be secured to the exterior Wall of the house or other wall and 11 represents the movable leaf of a hinge adapted to be secured to a blind or cover 12. The leaf 10 may be of any desired form or contour best adapted to support the weight of the blind 12. That is the leaf 10 may be stamped from spring sheet metal and suitably ribbed and reinforced where it is necessary. Preferably herein the leaf 10 is provided with a body or wall plate 14 having screw holes 15-15 through which are driven the screws or other means for fastening the said leaf to the wall. A saddle block 18 is provided on the outer or spring end of the leaf l0 and a stud or pintle 19 is arranged centrally of said block. The saddle block 18 may be separate from the leaf l0 and secured thereto in any suitable manner or the said saddle block may if desired be integral with the leaf 10. The movable leaf 11 is provided with a pivotal portion 20 having theret-hrougha bore 21 through which extends the said pintle- 19 in order that the said leaf 11 may rotate relative to the leaf 10. The pintle 19 projects beyond the side of the portion 20 for a purpose to be hereinafter described. The pint-1e 19 may be of any suitable construction, preferably however, said pintle is provided with a reduced portion 22 passing through the said saddle block 18 thereby forming a shoulder 24 engaging the top of the said saddle block. If

desired the said pintle may be reversed and secured to the portion 20 of the movable leaf 11 and the enlarged portion of said pintle may rotate in a bore in the leaf 10. A nut 25 is screw-threaded to said pintle in order to hold it securely to either of the said leaves. Locking notches 28, 30, and 31 of any suitable contour may be provided in either the saddle block 18 or the portion 20 whichever maybe most desirable and convenient. However, I have illustrated them herein as rounded notches located in the portion 20 of the leaf 11. The said notches correspond to the open, closed, and any desired intermediate positions of the blind. The aforesaid saddle block 18 is provided with a single. lug or projection'29. adapted to engage with the said notches. When the blind is placed in any of the above described positionsthe said lug and notches will securely lock the blind in that position. The lug 29 is slightly longer than the depth of the notches 28, 30 or 31, so that themember 20 does not bear directly on the saddle block 18 when in the locked positions and there can be no play or movement of the blind or cover due to ill-fitting lugs. Whenever the blind 12 is moved changing the leaf 11 from one position to another, the lug 29 must ride up the sides of the notch in which it is resting thus separating the leaf and spring member 85 lifting-the blind slightly until the said lug is on the fiat surface on the bottom of the portion when the said blind 12 can be easily swung to the next notch in the direction of rotation, and the lug. will be forced therein by means hereinafter described. The notches and 31, are notin a diametrical line but are slightly pitched on each side thereof in the extreme open and closed positions so that the blind will be held securely in the closed or in the open position where it will engage the other blind or project back against the wall as the case may be. A spring member extends over the pintle 19 and is adapted to press the portion 20, of'the leaf 11 toward the saddle block 18 with sufficient pressure to cause the lug 29 to securely engage with the notches 28, 30 and 31 and cause it to seattherein. The spring 35 may be integral with the leaf 10 or it may be separated therefrom and secured thereto in any suitable manner. If the said spring is integral with the leaf 10 both the spring and leaf will yield equally, see Fig. 3.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The leaf 10 of the hinge is secured to the wall of the house or to the wall of the compartment and the cover or door is secured to the leaf 11. Assuming that the blind or cover closes, the window or means of approach the person desiring to open it will grasp the said blind or cover and by swinging the same on the pintle l9 and the lug 29 will ride out of the slot 30 against the tension of the leaf 10 and spring 35 and the said lug will engage with the bearing face on the portion 20 until the said lug reaches one of the notches when the said leaf l0 and spring 35 will cause the said lug to enter said notch. If the blind or'cover is in the position it is desired to leave it, no further movement ofthe same need be made but if it is desired to fully open said blind the movement thereof will be continued until the lug 29 is forced into the notch 31 by means of the spring 35. The same movement will be performed when it is desired to close or partially close the said blind or cover.

By means of my invention the blind or cover is locked in the desired position so that it must be grasped and forcibly moved before a different position can be effected thusdispensing with hooks, spring latches,

looks or the equivalents thereof for maintaining the blind or cover in the desired posltion.

The particular design of the leaves 10 and 11 may be of any suitable form or shape best adapted tobe applied to existing architecture.

I have described herein one embodiment of my invention, but it is to be understood that the latter is not essentially limited to the specific details of construction and organization of said embodiment, since the same may be varied withoutdeparting from the proper scope of the claims.

Claims.

1. In a hinge, a stationary supporting:

spring leaf adapted to be secured to a wall, a movable leaf adapted to be secured to a blind or cover, a pintle on one of said leaves, a plurality of notches on one of said leaves adjacent to the bearing face on the other leaf, a lug on the opposite leaf and adapted to engage said notches, and a spring member integral with the said stationary leaf and bearing against the movable leaf to cause said lug to seat in one of said notches. 2. In a' hinge, a stationary supporting spring leaf adapted to be secured'to'a wall, a movable leaf pivoted to the said stationary leaf, a lug on one of said leaves, a plurality of radial grooves" on the other leaf and adapted to engage with said lug, and a spring member integral with the stationary leaf and bearing against the movable leaf to cause said lug to seat in one of said notches.

3. In a hinge, a stationary supporting member comprising a substantially parallel spring supporting leaf and spring member integral therewith saidstationary support-' ROBERT w, oNYoNs.

Witnesses:

GEORGE M. CLoUGH, LILLIAN MAGUIRE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forfive centseaeh, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

, Washington, D. C.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,028,953, grant-ed June 11, 1912,

upon the application of Robert W. Onyons, of Boston, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Hinges, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 17, for the word moored read moved; and

that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of July, A. D., 1912.

C. C. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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